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The 6 top stories of the 120 AIBriefs curated that day.
Dots run on their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and connect to 4,000+ apps via plugins. Available on Pro (including the $100 tier), Business Premium, and Enterprise; EEA, UK, and Switzerland were skipped at launch.
Sonnet 5.5 is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family after Opus 5.5, priced the same as Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 per million tokens with $0.20 cache reads and 1M context. Anthropic says it costs up to 30% less for most work and is now the default Sonnet model on the Anthropic API.
Anthropic released Opus 5.5 on September 22, priced well under half of Fable 5.1 per token while leading it on Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode, and CursorBench. It scores 88.4% on SimpleBench and climbs from 24% to 62% on Terminal-Bench-Science as reasoning effort rises.
GPT-6 Astra is now live in the API and in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users. OpenAI says it is its first model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework.
Meta released open-source ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK so developers can connect its Muse AI agent to displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators on boards like Raspberry Pi. It also built 5,000 Muse Home Link USB-C devices, free to Muse subscribers while supplies last.
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns partial transcripts in just over 100ms across 60 languages, ranking No. 1 for both final and partial transcript accuracy on Artificial Analysis. Introductory pricing is $0.54 per hour of audio through the end of the year; Microsoft also announced MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash covering 23 languages and 26 locales.
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